Serbian List Vice-President Milan Radoicic, who Pristina suspects of involvement in the assassination of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, filed a defamation lawsuit with the Higher Court in Belgrade against the president of the European Movement of Serbs from Kosovo, Rada Trajkovic.

Trajkovic announced the news on her Twitter account, stating that she would defend herself by taking the ''polygraph test''. Radoicic himself confirmed the news for KoSSev.

According to the preliminary list of the Kosovo Central Election Commission, 1,927,466 citizens registered to vote in the upcoming extraordinary parliamentary elections scheduled for October 6 – the CEC spokesperson, Valmir Elezi told Pristina-based Gazeta Express.

However, Kosovo only had 1,795,666 million residents in 2018, according to the Kosovo Agency of Statistics. This substantial difference between the number of registered voters and the estimated population has been greatly discussed in the Kosovo public.

KIM radio reported that Sladjana Djokic from Caglavica, a long-time employee of the Pristina Clinical Hospital Centre, received a decision on her suspension on Tuesday. Djokic claimed that the director of the institution, Bratislav Lazic, made the decision because of her daughter’s political involvement.

Representatives of the Serbian List have protested the decision of the Central Election Commission to prevent voters from voting with Serbian documents in early parliamentary elections in Kosovo on October 6, reported all Serbian media.

The Serbian List sent letters to the international missions in Pristina because of the CEC decision, saying that it was a violation of the law and asked to rectify this unilateral decision.

Coalition of Displaced Persons from Kosovo has given its full support and made all its resources available to the Serbian List for the upcoming elections in Kosovo on October 6, reads a press release.

Coalition urged all displaced persons with voting rights to support the Serbian List in the name of unanimity and Serbian unity in Kosovo.

Rada Trajkovic, the Chairwoman of the European Movement of Serbs in Kosovo told regional broadcaster N1 that the upcoming elections in Kosovo were “one of the last battles for the honour of Serbs and Serbia.”

Without further explaining her words, Trajkovic also said she had information that a group of people was infiltrated from Bosnia's Serb-dominated region Republika Srpska to exert pressure on the Serbs prior to the elections.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that those who boycott the elections in Belgrade are not doing that in Pristina because, as he said, “the conditions seem to be perfect over there.”

He thanked the Serbs who showed support to the Serbian List, which runs in the Kosovo elections, and he added that a lot of pressure was exerted on all others to run only to seize votes from the Serb List.

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric says that it is "terribly" important for the Serbs to be united around the Serbian List in Kosovo elections.

Djuric states that the deceased Oliver Ivanovic's party CI SDP decided to join the Serbian List in order to support their country, and strongly condemned the pressure on Ksenija Bozovic due to such decision.

Kosovo publicist and political analyst Veton Surroi said on Friday that the Serb List was created by the Presidents of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci.

The Serbian List is a Kosovo Serb party whose officials, including at least one person alleged to have criminal connections, enjoy the full support of official Belgrade.

Oliver Ivanovic's nephew said on Thursday the family told the Election Commission in Pristina they were against the usage of the late leader’s name on any election ticket, regional broadcaster N1 reported.

Aleksandar Ivanovic tweeted that his family obligation was “to protect the principles and values Oliver stood for and fought for and which for he paid an ultimate price.”